The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-24
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| REcAPITULATIoS of the returns of the Texas
Prohibition election. as far as heard from, gives
! the following result: Total Anti majority, 81
! 09; total Prohibition majority, 3,763; net Anti
majority, G4, 236; total Anti counties, 1907 total
! prohi ition counties, 81 total counties heard
| from, 49,
| Ex-senator BRUCE, of Mississippi has been
lecturing for a year. He entered the lecture
! field says the New York Freeman NEGRO or
| gam, ION suggestion of the late Henry Ward
Beecher He found the work very ,congenial
and bis success has been all that he and his
| friends could have desired. "
THE Winnemucca CNev) Siluer State says:
"a band of Shoshones arrived here few days
ago with several hundred dollars for the purpose
of engaging in gambling bout with the Piutes
| Usually the ShCSlones take away more money
| than they bring with them, but this time the
rule was reversed, and they lost all their coin
and blankets"
Mrs SADIE WILSON. widow with four little
children, went from Glenwood, Mo, to Cincin-
natl, to collect $685. which her brother owed her,
and which was all the property she had. She
put the money in her dress pocket. and had
hardly left Cincinnati when the pocket was cut
! bodily from her dress, and she was left abso-
lutely penniless
DRURY FoRTNUM, F. S. A.. has presented to
| Queen Victoria the engraved signet-ring of Hen
known and thoroughly authenticated. An entry
in the Privy Seal books in the Public Record
Office proves that Charles I. paid to Francis
Walwyn e267 for cutting the arms of England
upon the diamond which has also the initials
OF the Queen on either side.
HERR ADoLPH WuBRANDT. who recently re-
signed his position as Director of the Vienna
Burg Theatre, has received from the Intendant-
General the sum of 1900 forms $4,000 in con
eiderotiOp nf his ha vii translated and ed
a number of foreign plays during his director
ship without any compensation. He is not en-
titled to pension, not having been in office the
requisite number of years. Herr Wilbrandt.
who is the author of several very successful
dramatic productions will henceforth devote
| himself entirely to literature.
A SINGULAR case of desertion from the army
came before an Austrian court martial recently,
A Carniolan recruit deserted the ranks in fS4S.
He lived for thirty nine years in the mountains
and forests of Carniola and Carnthia. associ-
ating only with shepherds and woodcutters his
only shelter being in hutS of his construc-
ton. He contrived to make a small livelihood
by selling resin. but, at last, old age came on,
he got tired of his mode of existence, and in his
63d year be surrendered to the military author
tiles. They have condemned him to eight months
hard labor. which, under the circumstances,
seems rather a harsh sentence.
DR.. LYsAGHr, of the Bristol eng Royal In
Urinary, sacrificed his life in an effort to save a
patient. About a fortnight ago man was ad-
mitted to the infirmary suffering from an affec-
ton of the throat. supposed to be diphtheria.
The operation of tracheotomy was performed
by DR.. Lysaght: but, the tube becoming choked,
the last chance of saving the mans life was for
some one to apply bis lips to the tube and suck
the moisture. This DR.. Lysaght did but with
out avail for shortly afterward the patient died
of suppressed scarlatina DR.. Lysaght caught
the disease in its worst form and died. A win
dow is to be erected in the intrmary to his
memory.
EDWARD JACK, writing about hemlock in the
the New York Lumber Trade Journal. says that
until lately it has been abundant in Maine and
in the maritime provinces of Canada, but OK
and fire are fast DISCRIMINATING it. The liability
of the tree to be blown down on account of its
bushy top causes wndfalls which sometimes
cover considerable areas, over which fires rage
furiously. The lateral roots run near the sur
face to a great distance, and when the tree is
blown down they bring up large masses of
earth. In q windfall the trunks, tops and the
clumps of earth brought up by the roots form
tangle through which one can make only little
progress. Two days of hard work were required
to get through three or four miles of a tract
MIR. Jack was once inspecting.
A DUBLIN correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun writes respecting the public schools in Ire
| land He says the British government expends
about 81 ,26), 900 upon them annually, to which
sum about S1,C0)000 more is added from pri-
vate subscriptions. Tuition and books are
practically free, and the number of children on
the roll ont of population of 5000 900 is about
100000 with an average daily attendance as
high as So to IS per cent There are numerous
institutions of higher grade, besides training
schools, and in all the teaching and system of
management is well designed and efficient
THE curriculum in all grades the correspon-
dent observes, lis fully mp to, if not in advance
of the standard in the United States" There
is not now child in Ireland, it is held who can
not read or is not being taught
AN atrocious military murder is reported from
Bangalore. India. The native adiutant of the
Twelfth Madras Infantry shot Subahdar with
revolver and then fired at Havdar major
who escaped The murderer then barricaded
himself in his own quarters, where were his wife
and two children and other female relations
The military authorities feared that any attempt
to force an entrance might cause the death of
the women, so they teegraphed to the COM
mander- in-chief for orders. The reply was:
TRY and take the murderer alive Next
morning three shots were heard in tho house.
and he called out that he had shot his wife
During the afternoon he let out the children and
his mother in law. and then shot himself The
house was then forced, and the murderer and
his wife were both found dead. It is believed
that jealousy was the cause of the crime Last
year private in the same regiment shot a
Subahdar
AT Nnrragansett Pier the bathing costumes
this season are models of beauty, of color and
VI uTtNlly Inv SILK llRntS OF Tue Dal
let are used with the addition of belt at the
waist and garters inst above or just below the
knee as the modesty of the wearer may sug
gest Isay modesty advisedly, for it is the GUS
tom (or the fashion), for this season only, for
gentlemen to adjust the garter whenever they
become displaced by the waves, as they often
do; and fashion also DEGREES that for mo5esty's
sake. this very frequent task must be performed
while the garter is below the water apd ont of
sight of the vulgar. uubathing crowd that lines
the shore. A corset is worn, as in ordinary
attire and over and above this, and extending
half way to the knee a jersey conceals the
well, 1t conceas the corset 1t Is imperative
that the color of the tights shall be the exact
shade of the hair worn ON that special occasion
Tights are to be changed as often as the hair
A TRAGIcAL SUICIDE. which has a touch Of
romance about it, has just occurred at the
prison OF KarthaJis, near Prague. A young
soldier named Kazows!y was standing guard
there. In his early youth he had lost his father.
not through death. but in far more melan-
choly way. His father had committed murder.
been pronounced guilty and condemned To
twenty years hard labor. The young son was
then years old, and his fathers features re.
manned firmly imprinted upon his memory as
well as the whole painful impression OF the
event, which produced severe shock upon his
youthful mind While standing sentry before
the prison at KGrthaus and seeing the convicts
led past him on their way to the open air he
recognized in one OF the hoary criminals his own
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